Job Description

Job Description

The New York Times is seeking a creative, motivated, new-in-career software engineer to join the Experimentation Platform Team.

About the Team

The Experimentation Platform Team is a member of the Data Engineering group at The New York Times. The Experimentation Teams responsibilities are deeply technical and include building and maintaining web platforms, developing and sustaining reporting APIs, and providing support to teams which leverage our platform infrastructure within their own applications (such as the Front page of the New York Times!). The Experimentation Platform Teams work helps enable the Times to make smarter choices for our readers and react and adapt to our readers preferences.

Our systems are primarily built with Node.js and React.js and are deployed using Google Cloud Services. We also use Go, Drone, Fastly, Typescript, and AWS.

About the Job

As a member of the Experimentation Platform team, your day-to-day job would include the following activities:

* Build and evolve our experimentation capabilities through the creation and refinement of our experimentation platform user interface and platform APIs

* Work closely with partner teams to research, strategize, and propose solutions for our API and web applications

* Contribute to designing, implementing, and maintaining team tooling

* Supporting platform web applications and APIs through their full product life-cycle

* Participate in Agile scrum ceremonies

* Production support by participating in on-call rotation for the tools we build

* Contribute to the Times mission of reaching 10+ million paid subscribers by 2025

About You

You should have a passion for the Times mission and want make an impact on the organization through the use of Data as well as demonstrate the following:

* A strong desire to learn what it takes to build a product that supports a multitude of systems and platforms

* Some experience working with Java, Python, Node.js, or Go

* Familiarity with GCP or other cloud provider products and services

* Comfortable in a Linux environment

* Familiarity with what it takes to build and develop ETL data pipelines

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. On-call hours are unpaid, unless informed otherwise by your manager.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.